Random useless facts about 2002-2005 Thunderbirds

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Reminder: No politics on TBN.

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I think Goldwater could have beaten Green Mica...

[Will]

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Gold Water[/B]" and SB as "Green Mica"

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[4LOWBIRDS+8]

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The Inca Gold's has a paint code, BI, no paint companies I could find have a formula. Had to use the scanner.

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Wonder how they would look side by side or even if one had the colour chips to compare .

They had to have been the same color, just different codes. My guess is that Wixom had not received the correct color codes when they built these first units and created what they thought would be the natural color codes. Only later to find out those codes were assigned to different colors. The Ford paint code book lists BR as "Sunburst Gold Water" and SB as "Green Mica"

[snowbird]

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Even more useless info:
The first three 2005 Bronze Tbirds built have paint code BR - all bronze Tbirds built after that have paint code T2. The first three Bronzes made were 1FAHP60AX5Y100003, 1FAHP60A55Y100006, and 1FAHP60A75Y100007.

Also the first two 2005 Steel Blue's carried paint code SB where the rest of the year paint code was SP. The first two Steel Blues were: 1FAHP60A15Y100004 & 1FAHP60A35Y100005.

Wonder how they would look side by side or even if one had the colour chips to compare .

[Chuck]

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Imagine the fun someone with one of those 5 birds would have showing up at a body shop looking to get something repainted. Great thread Harry - keep'em coming

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Even more useless info:
The first three 2005 Bronze Tbirds built have paint code BR - all bronze Tbirds built after that have paint code T2. The first three Bronzes made were 1FAHP60AX5Y100003, 1FAHP60A55Y100006, and 1FAHP60A75Y100007.

Also the first two 2005 Steel Blue's carried paint code SB where the rest of the year paint code was SP. The first two Steel Blues were: 1FAHP60A15Y100004 & 1FAHP60A35Y100005.

[wcoates]

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Great useless fact! You can't argue that black and red were the most common colors but it's not fair to compare colors offered for all five years to those only available for one year. I could make a case that Merlot was the most popular color. But I'm sure you meant "numerous" instead of "popular".

I stand corrected, Professor. Jeez how many professors we got here?

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The 8 most popular colors were 86.45% of the total production. or 6.38 times the other 9 colors. How's that for some useless facts Harry?

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Great useless fact! You can't argue that black and red were the most common colors but it's not fair to compare colors offered for all five years to those only available for one year. I could make a case that Merlot was the most popular color. But I'm sure you meant "numerous" instead of "popular".

[wcoates]

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The 8 most popular colors were 86.45% of the total production. or 6.38 times the other 9 colors. How's that for some useless facts Harry?

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Can you tell me how much more it cost to have the factory boot?

Ross for the Facsimile window stickers I have done (thought I did one for you??) I am inserting $125 for the boot (and $135 for the select shift). Believe those are correct. (I hope).

Dealer invoice price for the boot varied from $100 to $112 depending on Canadian or USA delivery, as well as date ordered.

The invoice price for the SST was $116

Bill, your prices sound correct for the window sticker price.

[wcoates]

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Can you tell me how much more it cost to have the factory boot?

Ross for the Facsimile window stickers I have done (thought I did one for you??) I am inserting $125 for the boot (and $135 for the select shift). Believe those are correct. (I hope).

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More useless info:
For 2004 and 2005 model years, the boot was not standard equipment. There were a whopping 1,091 2004s ordered without the boot. That's about 8-1/2% of the 12,757 made that year. By 2005 apparently the dealers caught on that the boot was no longer standard and there were only 175 cars ordered without the boot. That's less than 2% of the 9,295 built for model year 2005.

I have one of those 2004's ordered with out the boot, the VMG. I bet that makes it more rare than Blackbeauty.

[Cashr22]

Can you tell me how much more it cost to have the factory boot?

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More useless info:
For 2004 and 2005 model years, the boot was not standard equipment. There were a whopping 1,091 2004s ordered without the boot. That's about 8-1/2% of the 12,757 made that year. By 2005 apparently the dealers caught on that the boot was no longer standard and there were only 175 cars ordered without the boot. That's less than 2% of the 9,295 built for model year 2005.